Sign up for our new workshop on how to design, build, and maintain a garden!
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HOT OFF THE PRESS!
Online Garden Workshop
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Location: Online
Cost: $150
The Garden Workshops Includes:
- 2 hours of live instruction on zoom
- Hands-on Activities
- Garden Guide
- Planning Workbook
This workshop is for people involved in school gardens, community gardens, and home gardens. It’s for educators who work with kids in after school programs, homeschooling, summer camps and community centers, and also for people who do not work directly with kids.
We will walk you through the elements of planning, planting, and maintaining a garden. You will receive a comprehensive Garden Guide, which provides an overview of the various aspects involved in planning a garden such as location, design, garden theme, planting calendar, as well as the practical knowledge required to successfully grow a garden, from soil and plant health to integrated pest management, tools and tasks. The guide also includes fun, easy to implement suggestions for gardening with kids.
Once you have identified the purpose and goals of your garden, you will create a plan. Our Planning Workbook is designed to help you think through the various aspects involved in growing a beautiful garden.
The workshop instructors are lifelong gardener Antonia Demas and Master Gardener Ariel Demas. They will be available to answer questions as you implement your plan throughout the season.
“Castelli International School has worked with the Food Studies Institute (FSI) since 2013 in Italy and the United States. FSI held fun, hands-on workshops with our students and teachers, as well as with other International Schools in Rome. The work done at our school with our entire staff and parents motivated the school management to include the “Food is Elementary” curriculum in our program so our students can learn the importance of healthy eating and grow up to be healthy and caring adults. We highly recommend this program to educators who care about a holistic education for their school community.”
-Marianne and Natasha Palladino, Founder and Principal, Castelli International School, Rome, Italy
